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A07592
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The mirrour of madnes, or a paradoxe maintayning madnes to be most excellent: done out of French into English, by Ia. San. gent
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Sandford, James.
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not fleshe bloude and bone borne of the virgin Mary I will make but this reason he sayde when he was liuing in humain flesh in this worlde hoc est corpus meum This is my body whiche verilye was then liuinge when it was spoken otherwise surely would he haue sayde Hoc est cadauer meum This is my carcase Now howe the Breade may bee the incorruptible body considering the nature thereof is obiect to our senses I see not I am sure the deade bodye they eate not then be like they eate the liuinge as it was before it was crucified that were moste absurde to graunte For the woordes of Iohn are Ci bus quem ego dabo caâ—o mea est The meat which I will giue is my fleshe And this Sinaxis was instituted before his death to be retayned and vsed after his deathe admitte the Pryeste shoulde loose one Hoste emonge a number as we read that once he did going to visite a sicke man there is no other waye to finde the same agayne but by vewing all the beastes that kneele aboute it to marke whether there be euer a black Cowe emong the company that kneleth on one knee and then hee shall know it is not for gracing but for worshippe or els if wee cannot finde hym in deede to do as I hard a mery Prieste did ones comming to an olde woman hauing lost his Host he beganne to Coyne an other of his gloue and approchynge neare to the beddes syde willed the good olde mother to gape and receaue her maker she greedlye opened her mouth and he thrust in his whyte letheren God whiche beinge somewhat touth shee toothelesse made a fowle agreement at length hauing longe chawed it and vnable to disgest shee beganne to crye is it he Mayster Parson it is hee I ipse he qui the which mother quoth hee thus the poore woman endeuouringe to swallowe it was for her greate deuotion deuoutlye chooked if the Priest had benne as gratiously hanged al men wooulde haue sayde there had bene but one Knaue out of the waye and peraduenture repentaunce might haue ouertaken hym at the Ghostly Gallowes whiche neuer did in quiet bedde for as the fame goeth hee died desperately but to make conclusion we say not that Chryste was euer suche a foole to thinke to eate himselfe or that his Mother was euer so vnkynde to eate her sonne or his Disciples their mayster that rawe fleashe without breade too at the leaste for feare of surfeyte for I think they knew not how to make Aqua vitae in those dayes We then confesse wyth Augustine and say vnicum habemus Domini corpus semel reuera in Cruce oblatum semper auteÌ„ ipsius Fidei dentibus attritum Wee haue one Body of the Lorde offered in dede ones vppon the Crosse but alwayes broken by the teeth of fayth Wee confesse with Ambrose Caro Domini in Caelis caro est in terris Fides est The fleshe of the Lorde in Heauen is fleshe in Earth fayth And wyth TertulliaÌ„ Corpus Christi manducare nihil aliud est quaÌ„ in ChristuÌ„ credere To eat the Body of Christ is nothing els but to beleue in Christ Thus speakynge one thing and meaning an other like Madmen wee dispraise yet prayse we right Madmen whose holy opinions and clerkely conclusions enforce vs to think still that Madnes excelleth Yee haue harde before litle trifles now beholde and vewe at large the greate and notable stage tryumphe of Madnes nowe behold her in all her pompe ruffe and iolitye ridinge into the Capitol thorow the Romane gates and Cittie moste victoriously with a thousande Captiues and Pezauntes at her Chariot shee I saye who before triumphed in Carthage ouer the puissaunce and power of Romans vnder the most worthye and valiaunt Hanniball nowe dothe the lyke ouer whole Affricke Iudea Assiria Egipte Greece Germanie Spain Fraunce Britaine and a number more vnder the moste renowmed and couragious Fabius Cunctator Scipio Affricanus Lucius Scaeuola Lucius Torquatus Iulius Caeser poÌ„pei the great and before their tyme Caius Marius whose soundinge fame throwe deadlye dynte of sworde hath wonne suche glorye immortall and atchiued suche prayse that neyther the enuious rage of greedye deathe neither the churlishe chappes of deuouringe tyme neyther the hurlinge payse of vnconstante Fortunes whele shal euer bee able to empayre or remoue the same from the seege of memorye how came they to such high aduauncement not by the prerogatiue of Nobilitye nor by the statelye stemme of Parentage nor by the sundry blastes of the lyghte and vulgar sort but by feates and deedes in Armes by Martial prowesse and hardy attemptes the parent whereof is Warre Battaile and Fight wherein what mayst thou elles perceiue but very Madnes the crashing Canon wyth rumblinge ratlinge and roaryng thuÌ„derclappes the Captaynes swellinge freating and fominge at mouth and settinge vp theire bristles the headdes and quarters of menne flyinge in the ayre the hydeous gronynges and Cryes of the wounded here a whole rancke cutte of with a chayne there a whole nuÌ„ber murdered by the sworde heere the grayslye bodies of the slayn there the merciles stroke of the murderour here the rage of the swoorde Cuius imbuti semel vecors libido est saith Seneca Who ones embrued with bloud still thirsteth after more there the streames of bloude most pitifull to beholde and shedde withoutt all mercie in moste aboundaunce and slâ—â—ghter on euerye side where is that noble Hector which at one tyme slew so manye thousande Grecians burninge and spoylinge their shippes most rufully and doing so valiauntly that both sea and land and al Greece quaked to heare hys name where is Achilles the stout and valiaunt of whom the Riuer Xanthus will tell maruailous thinges namely that he filled the same wyth deade bodies in somuche that the streame was vnable to beare them these thinges are not without cause lefte to memorye and coÌ„mitted to the Regyster of eternall fame which Fame they obtayned not but by Martyall feattes wherein consisteth the prayse and proofe of fortitude wherein wee well perceaue nothinge but playne Maddenes whiche notwithstandinge bringeth with yt most notable endes for therefore wee take warre in hand to liue in peace and in warre wee shewe manhode to wynne Renowme propose therefore whiche of these two endes ye wyll it shall not bee amisse for what can bee moore dâ—sired then peace in common wealth and what is more to bee embraced then renowme theÌ„ make I this reason what soeuer is good and to be embraced the same is so to bee embraced for the ende but the endes of Warre wherein fortitude exerciseth herselfe are most excellente as before is proued and warre it selfe nothing els but Madnes as before is shewed therefore Madnes is most soueraygne and excelleÌ„t The like reason maye be made Ab efficienti causa for who seeth not that Warres are taken in hand for twoo causes eyther to defende the Common weale or to reueÌ„ge oure iniuries
aspyre to al this this doctrine is so swete and so many resort to heare it that it neuer shameth his maister Of this Secte hath ben a great number aswel Greekes as RomaÌ„s Truth we wil remember first Sardanapalus is to well knowen whose deathe I am sure the preaty pewlinge dames so muche bewailed that the teares fell downe from theire eyes as huge as milstones to let the residue passe and to come to Alexander the greate whoe knoweth not that as vppoÌ„ a Madnes he woulde nedes subdue the whole worlde euen so geuen to pleasure hee became of a Souldiar a sawyer of a captayn Captiue and of a noble Conqueroure a notable Haukeroure the first original of this beganne in the warres pretended betweene him and the Amazones whom when the Queene hadde seene and he wel fixed hys Eies on her with wanton regardes and countenaunces euery sparkle kyndled a brande and euery brande raysed a flame and so the flame seeking his issue tooke truce for affections sake raged vpon the bodies of them both thus was the battayle of manhode turned to the batterye of Cupide whereof the ende was this that the fortes of both their honoures rased and pleasure takinge such deepe roote in the haughtye hart of the Prynce after many worthyes slayne by him in dronkenes and Royaultee transported to Tirannye Poyson became the ende of pleasure As for Heliogabalus his Tower garnished with glisteringe stones polished and set with gold to flinge himselfe downe if neede we are his Halters set with Pearle and curiouslye wroughte to hange hymselfe if neede weere his sworde so ryche and costly gilte engraued and set with Margaritee to slay hymselfe if neede were saued him not from the violent swoorde of his enimies To speake nothinge of Nero whose end was most miserable and tyrannie moste insatiable and pleasure in ost abhominable The like of Periander we reade and he a wise Philosopher but a wylde and sauage Tyraunte whom pleasure in the ende broughte to ende and distruction If emperoures if the Conquerours of all the worlde if many more beside Tyrauntes if Philosophers if high if lowe if one if other serche out pleasure so diligently followe it so inordinatlye wallowe in it so shamefullye ende with it so desperately what shal I thinke but that sithence all our life is set on pleasure and plesure altogether Madnes that all our life is Madnes Now exceptynge the vile and beastly pleasures whiche are the causes of these shamefull endes no man wil saye but that all pleasures may be allowed for al pleasures moderatly taken are profitable are honest are necessary profitable for that they prolong life honest for that they be decently vsed necessarye for without some pleasure our life is nothinge And for this cause nature inuented theym but pleasure as pleasure is of necessitye Madnes yet honest profitable and necessarye as before is proued Ergo. Madnes is both honest profitable and necessary But what if I make for Epicure and proue that all pleasures are good and excellente then I trust I shall enforce the like consequence of Madnes my chiefe reason shall bee a subiecto for euery accidente hath his excellencie of his subiect now if pleasure be in the most excellente subiecte and the same Madnes then Madnes for the excellencie of the subiect must nedes be most excellent in the most excellent subiecte it is as it maye bee with a weat finger shewed for what subiecte canne be more excellent in Heauen Earthe Purgatorye and Hell nexte to God or the Deuil then the most Holy Reuerende and Renowmed Father the Vicar of Chryste the Successoure of Peter the Lieutenaunte of Saynct Pawle our Ladies chiefe ChauÌ„celloure and Chamberlayne who hath all knowledge in the deapthe of his breaste all misteries within the ambrie grosse prease of his vnderstandinge who can do asmuche as Chryst can by the vertue of Saynct Peter and more then Chryst by the auctoritye receaued from him wherein he hath bound himselfe to his Holines in somuche that hee is able to dispence with the Newe and olde Testamente and to call thinges whiche are not euen as though they weere of nothing to make somethinge and to create his crea toure wherby he geueth the same auctoritee to Pryestes and ghostly Fathers likewise to iudge all men withoute controlmente or checke or iudgement of any other man although he drew infinite heapes of soules to Hell after hym likewyse in his mouthe is euery woorde established the leaste woorde thereof standeth to as greate effecte as the Bible thus maie Nouatus reioyce for his Heresies become Scripture and aboue it which was that for those that once fell ther remayned afterward no repentaunce thus maye Iohn the .xxii. triumph who denied the immortallitee or euerlastingnes of the soule affirminge that there was neyther Heauen nor Hel after deathe and nowe his opinion is aboue Scripture and Leo decimus hath no cause to complayne who sayde hee would haue Wylde foule in despyte of Gods teeth and maugre the Bible this is aboue Scripture O holy gouernoures of Peters ship O blessed Porters that carye the keies both of Heauen and Hell of the one to shutte other men from thence and of the other for suretie of repairauÌ„ce but he is Lorde of all Nec Deê° es nec homo sed neuter inter vtruÌ„ que Te deus elegit socium socialiter egit Tecum naÌ„que tenet Caelum dedit tibi terras Ne God ne man but midle playne thou art God hath thee choose his fellovv meate to be And vvith thee played a right good fellovves parte Reseruing Heauen himselfe and Earth for thee And yet his grosers and glosers worthines sticke not to cal his Holines Regem Regum Dominum dominantium King of Kinges and Lorde of Lordes of whose curse all the whoole worlde standeth in awe and trembleth as greatelye as dothe the Catte by the Kytchin fire or els in the milke panne ouer heade and eares But to recken vp all his grosse opynions especially of Transubstantiation wyl not euery man confesse the same to bee a solemne Madnes marke how soberlye it is proued 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whiche is asmuch to saye as-giue vs this daye our daylye breade whiche they interprete geue vs this daye oure supertransubstantiated breade fie fie Super sub and trans this is able to bringe a man into a traunce they muste haue the Calfe wyth the whyte face they muste haue they know not what and yet is theire Transubstanciation as good as before if a man aske them what the Accidentes be they saye visible if ye aske whereof they saye of Breade likewyse of the tangible Accidentes and the gustable beynge demaunded they answeare asmuche Yet must wee beleue vnder payne of damnation that euery lowsie dolte bussardlye Sacrificer may fetch downe Christ from Heauen into the Pixe at a sodayne yet say they not to Crucifie him although that they graunt him to be passible otherwyse he is